Skelly fleet spawn rate

@emp0rerenderman skelly fleets appear every so often in the rotation of cloud events. Typically you will see three skull forts and then a skeleton fleet. I have completed four forts in a row before the battle appeared once though. My crewmate with me when that happened said a couple days later that a galleon he was on did five. Their may be a timer in place that keeps the next ship battle from spawning until so long after the previous one, so if you completed forts fast enough, you could do more than three before the next ship battle. That would explain why we did four in a row and he did five.

These clouds start with a 30 minute despawn timer though. If no one activates the event, it disappears and cycles to the next. The chance that the battle will be active when you join a server is low, the chance you will then make it there before it disappears is even lower. Server hopping doesn't seem like a good strategy. I've been almost exclusively hunting skelleons for a while. I would sail around sinking random ones while keeping an eye on the clouds, anticipating when the ship battle will appear. I'd always make sure to start the battle quickly, even if I just turned around and left immediately, or didn't plan on keeping my ship and let it sink. Once it's activated, it won't despawn. So you can take your time, supply your ship, turn in treasure, search for a rowboat, try to find allies, whatever you want. It will be there waiting for you when you get back. Unless someone else shows up.